No respect
When I got home after the Ravens' win over the Browns on Sunday, I watched the end of Sunday Night Football and then flipped on SportsCenter to catch up on all the other football I had missed while at M&T.
What can I say, I like football.
About 40 minutes in, they finally got to the Ravens highlights. They showed one play -- Ed Reed's INT return for a touchdown. That's it. 10 second clip, max.
Now, I realize that it wasn't exactly the most thrilling game ever played, and they had 14 other games, baseball and Ryder Cup highlights to show.
But my point is this -- I know it's still very early, but this team is undefeated, in first place in their division, and getting no love. And to be honest, I think the players like it that way.
"All we want to do is just play football," Ray Lewis said. "It doesn't matter, man. [With] me being in this league for so long, I've been through that. I've told the guys in our Super Bowl year we weren't picked one time to win a game.
"So, who cares? Just go play 60 minutes of football, no matter who's watching."
A lot of people will be watching on Monday. And if Baltimore can pick up a win over the Steelers in front of a national audience, it could be a coming out party.
If any in John Harbaugh's group realize the potential significance of this game, they sure aren't saying so.
"It's a game," Derrick Mason said. "It's a game that we have to prepare ourselves to go down to Pittsburgh and try to pull out a victory. That's how we're looking at it. We're not going to get too caught up in it being the Steelers or it being a divisional game.
"It's a football game we've got to go out there and we've got to play well to win."
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